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other tourists, in which, though he will have a great deal to do, he will be very 

 usefully employed. 



The Views in the East. — India, Canton, and the shores of the Red Sea, are not 

 likely to be soon exhausted ; they continue to supply a beautiful succession of 

 subjects for the talents of the eminent artists engaged upon this work. Captain 

 Elliot's sketches have received ample justice at their hands. Of the three 

 engravings in this number we scarcely know which to prefer ; the last is cer- 

 tainly not the least — a view of the Water Palace at Mandoo ; but beautiful as it 

 is, we cannot pronounce the others inferior to it. 



National Portrait Gallery, Parts XXVI. and VII. — The gallery is here 

 enriched with several valualsle and interesting accessions to its illustrious list. 

 At the head of them stands the portrait of the King, and then follows a monarch 

 of a different order — Sir Walter Scott. For the accuracy of the likeness we 

 cannot say much, but the biographer has done him better justice than the 

 artist. The other portraits are those of Viscount Exmouth, Lord Lynedoch, the 

 Earl of Albemarle, and the Bishop of Bristol — well engraved, and worthy of 

 the rest. 



Illicstrations of Don Quixote. — These illustrations are " dedicated to the 

 memory of Cervantes ;" we wish they were more worthy of it. Mr. Aiken ia 

 a clever man, and he has got his designs cleverly engraved ; but if the glorious 

 old knight were precisely the personage here figured, the world would not have 

 laughed at him for so many years, and would very soon close his history for 

 ever. As portraits of a thin man and a thin horse, they are successful enough ; 

 as Quixotes and Rosinantes, they are unspiritual and commonplace. 



Of Man, Six Monograms, by David Scott, S.A. — These monograms require 

 a key to render them generally intelligible. We detect glimpses of grandeur in 

 them, and indications of philosophical meaning, boldly shadowed forth. They 

 treat of Life, of Relation, of Knowledge, of Intellect, of Power, and of Death ; 

 the last forming a group that Fuselli might have painted, or Shelley clothed in 

 the colours of poetry. 



A concise Description of selected Apples, by Hugh Ronalds, F.H.S. With a 

 Fitjvre of each Sort, drawn from Nature, iipon Stone, by his Daughter. — Whenever 

 imagined that any thing half so beautiful or interesting could be painted, or 

 said, about apples. W^e congratulate the learned horticulturalist, and all 

 who seek to cultivate this excellent and useful fruit, upon a publication which 

 treats not only of the management of orchards, but, to use the words of the 

 preface, " of extensive and smaller gardens, for paradise stocks, for the purpose 

 of sale, and for walls." The drawings are beautifully executed, and possess all 

 the richness and colouring of nature. We recommend Miss' Ronalds to 

 pursue the path she has entered upon, assured that full success must attend her 

 labours. 



\yORKS IN THE PRESS AND NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS. Hampden, his Party, and his Times, 



By Miss F. Kemble : Francis the with Portraits and Autograph liCtters. 



First, an Historical Drama. The Sketch of Venetian History, of 



By Messrs. Lander: A Journal of an which one volume has been published, 



F.xpedition to exi)lore the Course and will be completed in a second, to appear 



Termination of the Niger, embellished in the Famdy Library, 



with illustrative Engravings, and a Map By Allan Cunningham : the fifth (and 



of the Route. final) volume of Lives of the Painters. 



By Dr. Southey : a second Series of It will contain twelve lives; viz Jame- 



Colloquics on the Profjrcss and Pros- son, Ramsay, Romney, Runieman, 



pects of Society. The third volume Copley (father of Lord Lyndhurst), 



of his History of the Peninsular War ]\Iortimore, Raebum, Hopiiner, Owen, 



will ap])ear this season : and Essays, Lawrence, Harlow, and Boiinington. 



Moral and Political, in two volumes. A I/ift'of Sir Isaac Newton, l)v Dr. 



By Lord Nugc^nt: Memorials of Brewster jaTour through South Holland, 



